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In the Shadow of Diagnosis

- Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
Engelsk Hardback
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In the Shadow of Diagnosis

- Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
Engelsk Hardback

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A look at the history of psychiatry’s foundational impact on the lives of queer and gender-variant people.   In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure.  Drawing on a collection of previously unexamined case files from St. Elizabeths Hospital, In the Shadow of Diagnosis explores the encounter between psychiatry and queer and gender-variant people in the mid- to late-twentieth-century United States. It examines psychiatrists’ investments in understanding homosexuality as a dire psychiatric condition, a judgment that garnered them tremendous power and authority at a time that historians have characterized as psychiatry’s “golden age.” That stigmatizing diagnosis made a deep and lasting impact, too, on queer people, shaping gay life and politics in indelible ways. In the Shadow of Diagnosis helps us understand the adhesive and ongoing connection between queerness and sickness.  
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780226830193
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0226830195
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Udg. Dato:
1 apr 2024
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
1 apr 2024
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